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Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Life by : Henry Acton
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Life written by Henry Acton and published by History Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete reproduction of the rare 1838 edition--reprinted for the first time in over one hundred years. This little volume was originally penned by a whaling captain for his son. Irresistibly collectable, this edition--featuring 112 original black-and-white plates--retains all the charm of the original, including descriptions of successful voyages, whale hunting advice and sailing superstitions.
Book Synopsis A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sea Captain by : J. L. Branse
Download or read book A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sea Captain written by J. L. Branse and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of a Nantucket sea captain, how he came to be in command of a whaling ship, and how he and his crew hunted whales.
Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Life: The Exciting True Account by Henry Acton for His Son, William (Collector's) by : William Acton
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Life: The Exciting True Account by Henry Acton for His Son, William (Collector's) written by William Acton and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete reproduction of the rare 1838 edition reprinted for the first time in over one hundred years. This little volume was originally penned by a whaling captain for his son. Irresistibly collectable, this edition featuring 112 original black-and-white plates retains all the charm of the original, including descriptions of successful voyages, whale hunting advice and sailing superstitions."
Download or read book Moby Dick written by Herman Melville and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
Book Synopsis Whaling Captains of Color by : Skip Finley
Download or read book Whaling Captains of Color written by Skip Finley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could learn navigation and reading and writing. Whaling presented a tantalizing alternative to mainland life. Working with archival records at whaling museums, in libraries, from private archives and interviews with people whose ancestors were whaling masters, Finley culls stories from the lives of over 50 black whaling captains to create a portrait of what life was like for these leaders of color on the high seas. Each time a ship spotted a whale, a group often including the captain would jump into a small boat, row to the whale, and attack it, at times with the captain delivering the killing blow. The first, second, or third mate and boat steerer could eventually have opportunities to move into increasingly responsible roles. Finley explains how this skills-based system propelled captains of color to the helm. The book concludes as facts and factions conspire to kill the industry, including wars, weather, bad management, poor judgment, disease, obsolescence, and a non-renewable natural resource. Ironically, the end of the Civil War allowed the African Americans who were captains to exit the difficult and dangerous occupation—and make room for the Cape Verdean who picked up the mantle, literally to the end of the industry.
Book Synopsis Whaling Captains' Children: Their Life at Sea by : Anita Rich
Download or read book Whaling Captains' Children: Their Life at Sea written by Anita Rich and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights by : Captain Paul Watson
Download or read book Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights written by Captain Paul Watson and published by GroundSwell Books. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON IS NO STRANGER TO CONTROVERSY. But this particular conflict was more personal than most. His latest book is a fascinating and thought-provoking account of what happened when anti-whaling activists found themselves at odds with tribal rights. Conservationists, eco-warriors, whale protectors, and supporters of Indigenous traditions—as well as anyone who simply loves a good story—will find themselves captivated by this tale. DEATH OF A WHALE: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights narrates the events as they unfolded. In 1998, Sea Shepherd began a campaign to protect gray whales from slaughter by members of the Makah tribe of the Pacific Northwest, who had recently invoked cultural entitlements to allow them to practice their ancestral hunting rights. Makah members, conservationists, and non-Indigenous Americans vehemently expressed disparate points of view about whether tribal whaling operations, which had ended almost a century earlier, should be recognized, even when they were not in accord with international Indigenous whaling regulations. This electrifying, real-life adventure story showcases an Indigenous community at odds with itself, governments and media that advance their own agendas, and grassroots organizers who display heroic activism. Highly detailed and documented, the book reveals Captain Watson’s deep and unwavering respect for Indigenous traditions and rights, even when they conflict with his own devotion to the sovereignty of whales. "
Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Daughter by : Laura Jernegan
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Daughter written by Laura Jernegan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Laura Jernegan, a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s who records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.
Download or read book Petticoat Whalers written by Joan Druett and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.
Book Synopsis Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by : Eric Jay Dolin
Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Book Synopsis Captain Ahab Had a Wife by : Lisa Norling
Download or read book Captain Ahab Had a Wife written by Lisa Norling and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
Book Synopsis Whaling on Martha's Vineyard by : Thomas Dresser
Download or read book Whaling on Martha's Vineyard written by Thomas Dresser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha's Vineyard became an integral part of the whaling industry at the beginning of the eighteenth century and inspired a lasting romantic enthusiasm for life on the open ocean. From shorewhaling to daring voyages into the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the insular whaling community offered a tempting path for many young Vineyarders to rise from cabin boy to captain. Local businesses were enticed by the potential profit from whaling voyages, and many reaped generous rewards from successful whale oil harvests. Through memoirs, music and memorabilia, author Thomas Dresser recounts this dramatic history of the bygone era of whaling on Martha's Vineyard.
Book Synopsis She Went A-whaling by : Martha Smith Brewer Brown
Download or read book She Went A-whaling written by Martha Smith Brewer Brown and published by Ten Percent Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the women who accompanied her whaling-captain husband for an adventure on the whaling grounds, Martha Smith Brewer Brown kept a journal in 1847 and 1848, and it is presented here edited by Anne MacKay in a little book that makes a large contribution to women's history and whaling history. The very religious Martha Brown writes about her fears, her moral concerns, shipboard life, whale-hunting, and especially her distress during eight months ashore in Honolulu with a baby on the way, a husband in the Sea of Okhotsk, and not enough money in her purse.
Book Synopsis One Whaling Family by : Harold Williams
Download or read book One Whaling Family written by Harold Williams and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of the Williams family are told first hand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.
Book Synopsis The Real Story of the Whaler by : Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Download or read book The Real Story of the Whaler written by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Heart of the Sea by : Nathaniel Philbrick
Download or read book In the Heart of the Sea written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.
Book Synopsis The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by : Robert Holden
Download or read book The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea written by Robert Holden and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Australian whaling captain William Chamberlain, written in novel format. Chamberlain survived an attack by pirates off the west coast of Africa, and was rescued in 1816 by the Royal Navy when he was 12 years old. He subsequently fought as a powder-monkey in the Battle of Algiers, before being repatriated home. Includes notes on sources. Author's previous titles include 'The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book' and 'Orphans of History: The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet'.
